Funeral Songs

Songs for Funerals

The songs for funerals are set out in categories to help you find the kind of funeral songs you’re looking for.

See the following categories below: Popular funeral songs, young death, still birth, death of a spouse, religious, alternative, rock, death of a parent, golden oldies, sentimental songs for funerals, love songs and Afrikaans funeral songs.

“The soul takes flight to a world that is invisible, and there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.”

Lady Jane Grey, the movie

“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”

Richard Bach, (Illusions)

"When we are forgotten, we cease to exist."

Lady of the lake, from the movie 'Merlin'

"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love."

Washington Irving

"The harder you fall the higher you bounce"

Doug Horton

"What we have once enjoyed, we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes part of us."

Helen Keller

“He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt”

Joseph Heller, 1923

“The idea is to die young as late as possible.”

Ashley Montagu, (1905 –1999)

"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.”

Og Mandino

"Life's a voyage that's homeward bound."

Herman Melville

“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”

(Little Foxes, 1866)

“It was not frightening to die sometime, it was frightening to die right now.”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, (cancer ward)

"I am awake, I see the sun. I am going to give my gratitude to the sun and to everything and everyone, because I am still alive and this might be the last day that I can tell you that I love you"

Don Miguel Ruiz (The Four Agreements)

"Don't die with your music still inside you"

Wayne Dyer

"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it"